5-minute pitchraise

[Frank Cahill]

Clyde Hollinger wrote:
> 
> Friends:
> 
> When I first heard of this feat, it was a fine tuning in four minutes.
> I reckon the version printed here is closer to the truth.  So can we
> have a volunteer show us at Kansas City how to do even a 9-minute
> pitchraise?  That's about 1 string every 2.5 seconds.  I sure _I_ would
> learn something.  Somebody?  Anybody?!  Please?
> 
> Clyde Hollinger
> 
> kam544@earthlink.net wrote:
> >
> > >...Who was it who used to demonstrate a 5-minute pitch raise of an entire
> > >piano? Steve Fairchild?...
> > >Avery
> >
> > Guiness record holder raising pitch 100 cents in 5 minutes using a Baldwin
> > Acrosonic model though I honestly can't remember any of the particulars.
> >
> > That was a long time ago though.
> >
> > Last report from him at some national convention I attended years ago was
> > he's a bit rusty and out of shape.  Said he probably couldn't do it any
> > faster than 9 minutes now.  :-)
> >
> > Keith McGavern




Hey, there is a video with Jum Coleman doing a pitch raise in ten
minutes. That's about twice the speed I can do.
-- 

Frank Cahill
Associate Member, Piano Technicians Guild
Northern Va